Archive for the 'Science' Category

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Paperback)

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: “What the [...]

Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 21st Edition (Thumb Index Version) (Hardcover)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Stewart’s Calculus Series) (Hardcover)

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Success in your calculus course starts here! James Stewart’s CALCULUS texts are world-wide best-sellers for a reason: they are clear, accurate, and filled with relevant, real-world examples. With CALCULUS: EARLY TRANCENDENTALS, Sixth Edition, Stewart conveys not only the utility of calculus to help you develop technical competence, but also gives you an appreciation [...]

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Paperback)

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
[Signature]Reviewed by Pamela KaufmanPollan (The Botany of Desire) examines what he calls “our national eating disorder” (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It’s a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way [...]